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In 1750, Naples was the eighth-largest city in the world, but its music of the Baroque and early Classical periods remains much less well-known than that of Rome, Venice, or Milan. Pergolesi is a familiar figure, of course, and Alessandro Scarlatti, but many of the composers here -- Emanuele Barbella, Andrea Falconieri, Leonardo Leo, and many more -- will be known mostly to specialists, if even to them. Ophélie Gaillard has managed to put together a double album of Neapolitan works for the cello, a comparatively new instrument at the time. One draw here is her violoncello piccolo, a small, bright, agile five-string cello often used during the Italian Baroque. Best of all, though, is that Gaillard succeeds in living up to the exclamation point in her Napoli! title. She deploys a variety of pieces that capture Naples' musical distinctiveness and imagination. It is not just the tuneful opera arias, although there are several of those, featuring an unusually strong trio of singers in soprano Sandrine Piau, mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti, and countertenor Luan Góes, as well as cello sonatas that borrow an operatic idiom. There is also a wealth of instrumental music, some of it arranged for the cello. Sample the delightful Sonata intitolata Arlecchino, Arlecchinessa, Rosetta, e Pulcinello, where the cello takes on the personalities of figures from the commedia dell'arte. Several pieces here are world premieres, and there isn't a dull one in the whole large bunch. About the only complaint here is Aparte's unidiomatic and boomy church sound, but there is enough interesting music here to make that complaint a minor one.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Diego Ortiz, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Matteis, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Matteis, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Andrea Falconieri, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Andrea Falconieri, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Minor (Alessandro Scarlatti)
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
Sandrine Piau, MainArtist - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Domenico Natale Sarro, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Cello Concerto No. 1 in F Major (Nicola Fiorenza)
Nicola Fiorenza, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Fiorenza, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Fiorenza, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Fiorenza, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Marina Viotti, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Giuseppe Bonno, Composer
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Sonata intitolata Arlecchino, Arlecchinessa, Rosetta e Pulcinella (Arr. for Violoncello Piccolo) (Emanuele Barbella)
Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Emanuele Barbella, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Emanuele Barbella, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Emanuele Barbella, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Emanuele Barbella, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Emanuele Barbella, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Anonymous Anonymous, Composer
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DISC 2
Andrea Falconieri, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Matteis, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
Nicola Matteis, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Lamentación segunda del Jueves Santo (Francesco Corselli)
Sandrine Piau, MainArtist - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Corselli, Composer
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Sandrine Piau, MainArtist - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Corselli, Composer
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Sandrine Piau, MainArtist - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Corselli, Composer
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Concerto no. 2 in G minor (Francesco Durante)
Francesco Durante, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Francesco Durante, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Cello Sonata No. 1 in D Major (Francesco Alborea)
Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Alborea, Composer
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Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Alborea, Composer
2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca 2023 Aparté, a label of Little Tribeca
Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist - Francesco Alborea, Composer
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Cello Concerto in D Minor, L. 60 (Leonardo Leo)
Leonardo Leo, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Leonardo Leo, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Leonardo Leo, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Leonardo Leo, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Porpora, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Marina Viotti, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Salvatore Lanzetti, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Salvatore Lanzetti, Composer - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Nicola Porpora, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, Cello, MainArtist - Luan Goes, MainArtist
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Composer - Ophélie Gaillard, MainArtist - Pulcinella Orchestra, Orchestra, MainArtist
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Album review
In 1750, Naples was the eighth-largest city in the world, but its music of the Baroque and early Classical periods remains much less well-known than that of Rome, Venice, or Milan. Pergolesi is a familiar figure, of course, and Alessandro Scarlatti, but many of the composers here -- Emanuele Barbella, Andrea Falconieri, Leonardo Leo, and many more -- will be known mostly to specialists, if even to them. Ophélie Gaillard has managed to put together a double album of Neapolitan works for the cello, a comparatively new instrument at the time. One draw here is her violoncello piccolo, a small, bright, agile five-string cello often used during the Italian Baroque. Best of all, though, is that Gaillard succeeds in living up to the exclamation point in her Napoli! title. She deploys a variety of pieces that capture Naples' musical distinctiveness and imagination. It is not just the tuneful opera arias, although there are several of those, featuring an unusually strong trio of singers in soprano Sandrine Piau, mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti, and countertenor Luan Góes, as well as cello sonatas that borrow an operatic idiom. There is also a wealth of instrumental music, some of it arranged for the cello. Sample the delightful Sonata intitolata Arlecchino, Arlecchinessa, Rosetta, e Pulcinello, where the cello takes on the personalities of figures from the commedia dell'arte. Several pieces here are world premieres, and there isn't a dull one in the whole large bunch. About the only complaint here is Aparte's unidiomatic and boomy church sound, but there is enough interesting music here to make that complaint a minor one.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 41 track(s)
- Total length: 02:04:15
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Ophélie Gaillard Sandrine Piau Marina Viotti Luan Goes Pulcinella Orchestra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Aparté
- Genre: Classical
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